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NEW TITLES: NON-FICTION SEPTEMBER


for everyone through the PRIDE acronym: Purpose, Reputation, Integrity, Direction and Energy.


ARUN SINGH & MIKE MISTER HOW TO LEAD SMART PEOPLE: LEADERSHIP FOR PROFESSIONALS PROFILE, 6TH, HB, £12.99, 9781788161541 A collection of 50 easily assimilated lessons which aim to show the reader in concise, pithy prose how to manage a team of equals with intelligence and diplomacy.


NIGEL TRAVIS THE CHALLENGE CULTURE: WHY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ORGANISATIONS RUN ON PUSHBACK PIATKUS, 18TH, PB, £13.99, 9780349418001 The British-born chairman and c.e.o. of American multinational Dunkin Brands, which owns


Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins, explains how organisations succeed by fostering a culture in which everyone can contribute. And using examples such as Blockbuster and Leyton Orient FC, what happens when they don’t. . .


CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS


and regular Evening Standard columnist traces the history of political correctness in the UK and the US, and argues forcefully that, in spite of many failures, the movement has made both countries both more civilised and equal.


YASMIN ALBIHAI-BROWN IN DEFENCE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BITEBACK, 11TH, HB, £10, 9781785904141 The broadcaster, author


FRANCIS BECKETT & MARK SEDDON JEREMY CORBYN AND THE STRANGE REBIRTH OF LABOUR ENGLAND BITEBACK, 18TH, HB, £20, 9781785904004 Side-stepping the “current media obsession”, an incisive and optimistic analysis of the re- emergence of a socialist Labour Party by two journalists who are both long-standing Labour activists.


CHRISTOPHER BOOKER GROUPTHINK: A STUDY IN SELF-DELUSION BLOOMSBURY, HB, £20,


9781472959058


From the invasion of Iraq to political correctness, the Sunday Telegraph columnist considers whether we have found ourselves in the grip of self-delusion, fatally influenced by the mentality of the crowd.


easily accessible”, this inspiring book is chock full of ideas, tools and tactics for building viable urban neighbourhoods, and profiles some of the thousands of exciting small-change projects being carried out around the world by active citizens, community and civic leaders, and urban professionals.


KELVIN CAMPBELL MAKING MASSIVE SMALL CHANGE: IDEAS, TOOLS AND TACTICS TO BUILD VIABLE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS CHELSEA GREEN, 13TH, HB, £25, 9781603587754 “Bold, ambitious, yet


NACHO CARRETERO & THOMAS BUNSTEAD (TRANSLATOR) SNOW ON THE ATLANTIC: HOW COCAINE CAME TO EUROPE ZED, PB, £12.99, 9781786993021 Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah, is an admirer of this account of how Galicia, a sleepy, windswept corner of Spain, became the cocaine gateway to Europe. The Spanish edition sold over 30,000 copies but is now


08.06.18 www.thebookseller.com


embargoed after a former mayor brought legal action against the author.


NIHEER DASANDI IS DEMOCRACY FAILING? THAMES & HUDSON, PB, £12.95, 9780500293652 One of four launch titles in a new Big Idea series, this explores each form of democracy and questions whether it remains fit for purpose today. Also out this month Is Capitalism Working? (9780500293676), Is Gender Fluid?


(9780500293683) and What Shape is Space? (9780500293669).


WILLIAM DAVIES NERVOUS STATES: HOW FEELING TOOK OVER THE WORLD CAPE, 6TH, HB, £18.99, 9781787330108 The author of The Happiness Industry returns to explore how


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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


DR RICHARD SHEPHERD UNNATURAL CAUSES MICHAEL JOSEPH, 20TH, HB, £20, 9780718182717


Shepherd is the UK’s foremost forensic pathologist, his job is to understand deaths which may have no natural cause, and his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. In this compelling-sounding book, billed as “a real-life Silent Witness”, he looks back on some of the high-profile cases he has been involved in as an expert witness— including 9/11, the Bali bombing, and the death of Princess Diana. He also considers the personal costs of a career in which he has been constantly driven by the challenge to find out the truth.


BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS


DIARMAID MACCULLOCH THOMAS CROMWELL: A LIFE ALLEN LANE, 27TH HB, £30, 9781846144295


“This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years,” says Hilary Mantel of this major new life of her man Cromwell, based on a decade of original archival research, and billed as the “most complete life ever written of this elusive figure”. Making connections not previously seen, and revealing more about the channels through which power in early Tudor England flowed, the distinguished Oxford historian overturns such received wisdoms as the idea that Cromwell and Anne Boleyn were allies because of their shared religious sympathies.


FOOD & DRINK


NIKI SEGNIT LATERAL COOKING BLOOMSBURY, 20TH, HB, £30, 9781408856895 The author of the award-winning The Flavour Thesaurus returns with a covetably designed book, intended to help cooks develop their own recipes. Divided into 12 chapters, each one covering a basic culinary category—Bread, Sauces or Custard (love that custard is a basic), Segnit arranges recipes on a continuum, so that the transition from one recipe to the next amounts to just a tweak in method or ingredients. Infused with Segnit’s witty writing, the idea is that improvisation and the confidence to cook by heart will be encouraged.


HISTORY


BEN MACINTYRE THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR: THE GREATEST ESPIONAGE STORY OF THE COLD WAR VIKING, 20TH, HB, £25, 9780241186657


Any new true tale by Ben Macintyre is a must-read as far as I’m concerned, but this one feels particularly timely. It concerns the life of double agent Oleg Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer who supplied his British spymasters with priceless secrets for over a decade. In 1985, however, he stood in central Moscow with a Safeway bag, its logo the signal that he needed out. What follows is a tale of espionage, betrayal and courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever.


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